Kili Gul Mohammad
KGM Type Site
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (c.6000–3200 BCE, type-site 5000 BCE)·Kili Gul Mohammad → Togau → Kechi Beg → Damb Sadaat·🇵🇰 Balochistan, Quetta District, Quetta-Chaman Road 1 km south of Kili village, Pakistan
About
About Kili Gul Mohammad
Type-site for South Asia's earliest farming phase, 8 km north of Quetta on Quetta-Chaman road, 400×200 m mound 15 m high excavated 1950–51 by Walter Fairservis. KGM I (5000–4500 BCE) yields handmade basket-marked pottery, ground stone axes and domesticated sheep/goat, anchoring Quetta Valley sequence from aceramic village to Togau mudbrick before Mehrgarh's later Neolithic.
Why it mattersQuetta Valley Neolithic type-site anchoring earliest South Asian farming before Mehrgarh
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01KGM vs Mehrgarh chronology — which highland Neolithic is earliest?
- 02Basket-marked pottery origin — local or Iranian plateau
Theories
- 01Quetta highland Neolithic independent of Zagros: KGM–Mehrgarh parallel farming model
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.6000 BCE
- Period
- Neolithic to Chalcolithic (c.6000–3200 BCE, type-site 5000 BCE)
- Culture
- Kili Gul Mohammad → Togau → Kechi Beg → Damb Sadaat
- Builders
- Baloch highland farmers
- Purpose
- Earliest South Asian farming village on Quetta plateau
- Abandoned
- c.3200 BCE
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c.6000 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1418 CE
Abandonment
On the ground
Structures & features
30.2833° N · 66.9667° E · 1680 m · 2 mapped features
Mound 1 early Neolithic base
settlementAceramic levels with pit houses and ground stone axes
30.2836° N · 66.9670° ETogau mudbrick upper layers
settlementCeramic Neolithic mudbrick architecture with basket-marked ware
30.2830° N · 66.9664° E